World news digest of January 24, 2022

Some news from around the world, in short:

• Bolsonaro eventually decided to suspend the salary increase he promised to police in 2022, but only for now.
• São Paulo had at least 31% more homeless people in the course of two years.
• Cuba is suffering from a shortage of powdered milk for children and coffee.
• More than 200,00 chicks have been culled in the Netherlands because of the bird flu. Since October, when confinement for poultry has been in place, more than 1.1 million animals have been culled in the country.
• A cruise ship from Crystal Symphony was supposed to dock in Miami. But it instead sailed to the Bahamas to avoid US justice. A judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over US$4 million in unpaid fuel.
• The United States asked diplomats’ family members in Ukraine to leave the country. The European Union didn’t.
• The United Arab Emirates said it shot down two ballistic missiles from Yemen’s Houthi rebels a week after their terrorist attack hit Dubai.
• Terence Darrell Kelly pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of four-year-old Cleo Smith. The Australian girl was missing for two weeks, and the whole country was looking for her.
• The fashion brand Hermes filed a lawsuit against an American artist who depicts and transforms digital Birkin bags. As he sells his work via non-fungible tokens the company claims he makes profits off a trademark. The artist justifies and compares his work with the work of Andy Warhol with Campbell Soups.
• South Africa received a US$750m loan for Covid-19 response from the World Bank, reportedly the first financial support from the institution since the country’s democratic transition.